Senior Consultant – Digital Government Quality & Compliance
About This Role
The Senior Consultant will play a strategic leadership role in designing and establishing a national operating model, governance framework, quality standards alignment, certification approach, and implementation roadmap to enable standardized compliance across government digital services.
This role requires deep expertise in digital government transformation, quality assurance frameworks, regulatory compliance, and large-scale national programs.
Key Responsibilities
1. Operating Model Design
- Define the organizational structure, maturity model, and compliance ladder.
- Establish certification frameworks and accreditation mechanisms.
- Develop a phased implementation and rollout strategy, including pilot entities.
2. Governance Framework Development
- Design governance structures, decision-making models, and oversight mechanisms.
- Develop RACI matrices and stakeholder engagement frameworks.
- Define transparency, reporting structures, and national benchmarking models.
- Establish KPI frameworks for service quality monitoring and compliance tracking.
3. Standards & Quality Framework Alignment
- Ensure alignment with internationally recognized testing and quality frameworks, including:
- ISTQB (mandatory)
- TMMi (preferred)
- Recommend compliance tiers, quality benchmarks, and performance indicators.
- Define audit, assessment, and evaluation methodologies.
4. QA/QC Methodology Development
- Develop standardized QA and QC methodologies for government digital services.
- Design workflows covering assessment, evaluation, and certification issuance.
- Develop structured assessment questionnaires for government entities.
- Create documentation templates, compliance reports, and evaluation frameworks.
5. Advisory & Regulatory Support
- Provide regulatory advisory on digital service compliance and policy integration.
- Support national-level transformation programs with quality governance expertise.
- Advise on alignment with international standards and national digital strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience in operating model design and governance framework development.
- Strong knowledge of ISTQB standards (mandatory) .
- Experience developing QA/QC methodologies for digital services.
- Experience working on large-scale government or public sector programs.
- Experience in establishing certification bodies, testing labs, or national performance indicators.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive presentation skills.
10+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, QA governance, or regulatory advisory.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in ISTQB, TMMi, or related testing and quality frameworks.
- Experience within the Saudi government ecosystem or Vision 2030 initiatives.
- Background in digital government service design and performance measurement.
- Arabic and English proficiency is a strong advantage.
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